Monday, February 27, 2012

WelcomeI am Lucian Lucian, father, teacher,researcher,Social Media Curator from Caransebeş, România http://re.vu/SocialMediaCuratorLucianand I belive that new technologies web 2.0 and social media open gateway thtough knowledge for teachers and students worldwide .I want to post next words today when it is my birthday and also I am verry happy to go at Forumul Inovatorilor în Educaţie organized by Microsoft şi EOS Fundation where I will present my eSafety4eTwinners project . Still you read my blog post I invite you to eat a stawberry cake and drink a glass a champagne , after add your comments and feedback to my post, in weekend I will add here my thoughts about Innovation Forum in Education .

Because eSafety4eTwinners project was accepted in the exhibition organized by Eos and Microsoft at Innovation Forum in Education and also was selected in 10 best social media practice in Europe and it is included in the brochure realised by ElearninngEuropaInfo , we, founders, Lucian Duma from Romania and Miguela Fernandes from Portugal want to launch again ,, ,, eSafety4eTwinners - web 2.0 and social media use eTwinners 4 preventing school dropout " . If you want to join this project contact me http://scr.im/lucicurator or leave a comment .

DescriptionIn nowadays society where science and information known a spectacular development and use of new web 2.0 and social media applications is no longer regarded as an avant-garde movement our students should be able to handle in the creative use of computer and online free tools represents a necessity in XXI Century Education . Today more than ever is observed a conversion worldwide of educational content in a digital form and this products are available to anyone, anywhere and anytime through eLearning technology. Interactive presentations like glogster edu and digital school lessons make a centered student who live in a learning envirolment and virtual education has become a phenomenon in education in last years. Training and professional development must be guided and monitored also for disadvantaged childrens because for this students classic access to information is not avaible . In the era of Internet and development of new technologies although my students and other students who have problems are children with special educational needs, at risk of school droppout XXI Century Skills can help them integrate into society .. Web 2.0andsocial mediacan bring a new dimension and can reform education around the word because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other. These technologies can stimulate discussion, open gateway to knowledge, promoting creativity and innovation for effective lifelong learning . Teacher and also students should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times.Pulling Piaget and Papert , the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student centered, adaptive environnement where learners can contribute to the course material, formulate and express their own insights and opinion, construct their own understanding of material by connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learn from one another in collaborative environments .Web 2.0 , social media and other digital and information technologies are powerful and interesting tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers and students must know how to use it nowadays in a safe mode

In the same time students are happy to came at schools where they learn about new tools and apps web 2.0 and social media and also they learn how to integrate in a safe mode new digital technologies in their classroom ,and this may prevent early school dropout . Although there are students with special needs , if they develop digital skills easier to integrate into the labor market today as most employers require computer literacy skills when hiring. AIMSThrough this project we want to develop XXI century skills for students using in a eSafe mode new tehnologies in education 2.0 . If we use with our students new tools and applications web 2.0 and social media we open for them gateway through knowledge . - Known and share each other culture;- Explore Web 2.0 tools for education;- Acquire skills for the XXI century http://www.p21.org/ );- Learn to communicate and work collaboratively; - Improve skill language

Now I will present top 10 curation tools who will open gateway to knowledge for teachers worldwide . If you are agree with me leave a comment, also add like comments new curation tools .

Also I invite you to visit weekly this blog because I will present every week gr8 tools and apps who will offer gateway to knowledge in XXI Century Education . You can read more down about my research and if you want to collaborate to make a curation platform ( website ) for teachers contact me

I launch this project because Curation is the Social Media King and Next Big Thing still 2011 around the social web and social media curation tools are the gateway through semantic web 3.0 in #education20 and for this reason I invite teachers and researchers worldwide to join free this global project .Curation is King of Knowledge in Social Media and the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , tagging, organizing, interaction, communication . Steve Rosenbaum describe in his book Curation : (p 3-4) Curation is about adding value from humans … Curation is very much the core shift in commerce, editorial, and communities that require highly qualified humans. Humans aren’t extra, or special, or enhancements; humans arecurators. They do what no computer can possibly achieve.(p 12-13) No longer is the algorithm in charge. Human curators have become essential software. What emerges is new human and computer collaboration … The important news of the emergence of a Curation Nation is that humans are very much back in charge.The Internet Curator's role is to seek on the web information related to a specific domain, filter them, select them, organise, share and present them in a unique way.Now, if you have done any of that work before, you should know that doing so has many benefits, but is also very time consuming. I mean, you can always scour your friends blogs, do a search, visit news sites or other trusted sources available to you. But then, there is the matter of putting them all together, by copying and pasting, editing, among other things.In essence, you choose a topic, research for the best articles out there, combine them into a post, publish, and share it to the world. That’s curating content!

Monday, February 6, 2012

Safer Internet Day is a global event celebrated every year in 7 february . Teachers and students worldwide should celebrate this event and learn about eSafety and for this reason I ask you ,, what is mean #esafety 4 you repply here http://www.webdoc.com/

Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. This year, Safer Internet Day (SID) will take place on Tuesday 7 February 2012 and will be centred around the theme Connecting generations and educating each other, with the slogan: "Discover the digital world together... safely!" About Connecting Generations This topic looks at the reach of the online world across all generations and cultures and encourages families to work together to stay safe online. Whether you are 5, 40 or 75 years old, whether you use the internet once a month or several times a day - each person has something different to bring to the table that can help shape our online experiences and our understanding of online competences and safety. We all have a role to play in ensuring that every child is safe online. Today our offline and online worlds are strongly connected, from families communicating via webcam with relatives and friends abroad to children doing their homework online. The online world is a unique arena where people of all ages can learn together and from each other, especially regarding online safety. Tech savvy youngsters can teach their elders how to use new technologies, while grandparents can draw on their life experiences to advise younger generations on how to stay safe online, as they discover the digital world together. How to take part? Visit saferinternetday.org for more information and to download SID promotional materials and resources.

I develop the project ,, eSafety4eTwinners - web 2.0 and social media use eTwinners 4 preventing school dropout " http://e-safety4etwinners.wikispaces.com/. Through this project we want to develop XXI century skills for students using in a eSafe mode new tehnologies in education 2.0 and in this way we can prevent school dropout because our students love to be on-line in a technology world . This project was selected from 80 projects in Ten Best Practices in teachers’ competition for Social Media use in Formal Language Learning Contexts " and obtain 2 European Quality Label . If you are a eTwinner and you are a hardworker partener and your students are passionate to use new technologies you are welcome to join and contact me luciane_twining@yahoo.com .